30-Day Notice for the “Our Town Program Implementation Study” Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 52851-52852 [2018-22729]
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Institute of Museum and Library
Services
Submission for OMB Review,
Comment Request, Proposed
Collection: IMLS Accelerating
Promising Practices for Small Libraries
(APP) Notice of Funding Opportunity
Institute of Museum and
Library Services, National Foundation
on the Arts and the Humanities.
ACTION: Submission for OMB review,
comment request.
AGENCY:
The Institute of Museum and
Library Services announces the
following information collection has
been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. This notice proposes
the clearance of the instructions for the
IMLS Accelerating Promising Practices
for Small Libraries (APP) Notice of
Funding Opportunity.
A copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below
in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Comments must be submitted to
the office listed in the CONTACT section
below on or before November 16, 2018.
OMB is particularly interested in
comments that help the agency to:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology
(e.g., permitting electronic submission
of responses).
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Comments should be sent to
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attn.: OMB Desk Officer for
Education, Office of Management and
Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, (202) 395–7316.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Sandra Webb, Director of Grant Policy
and Management, Institute of Museum
and Library Services, 955 L’Enfant Plaza
North, SW, Suite 4000, Washington, DC
20024–2135. Dr. Webb can be reached
by Telephone: 202–653–4718 Fax: 202–
653–4608, or by email at swebb@
imls.gov, or by teletype (TTY/TDD) for
persons with hearing difficulty at 202–
653–4614.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE
ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
I. Background
The Institute of Museum and Library
Services is the primary source of federal
support for the nation’s libraries and
museums. We advance, support, and
empower America’s museums, libraries,
and related organizations through grant
making, research, and policy
development. Our vision is a nation
where museums and libraries work
together to transform the lives of
individuals and communities. To learn
more, visit www.imls.gov.
II. Current Actions
The goal of the IMLS initiative
Accelerating Promising Practices for
Small Libraries (APP) is to support
projects that strengthen the ability of
small and rural libraries and archives to
serve their communities. IMLS invites
applications that focus on transforming
school library practice, community
memory, or digital inclusion, and are
clearly linked to an individual
institution’s broader community needs.
IMLS Accelerating Promising Practices
for Small Libraries (APPL) is being
offered as a special initiative with
funding from the National Leadership
Grants for Libraries Program. This
action is to create the forms and
instructions for this initiative as a
Notice of Funding Opportunity for the
next three years.
Agency: Institute of Museum and
Library Services.
Title: 2019–2021 IMLS Accelerating
Promising Practices for Small Libraries
Notice of Funding Opportunity.
OMB Number: 3137–TBD.
Frequency: Once per year.
Affected Public: Library organization
applicants.
Number of Respondents: 150.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 35 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 5250
hours.
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Total Annualized capital/startup
costs: n/a.
Total Annual costs: $145,582.50.
Dated: October 15, 2018.
Kim Miller,
Grants Management Specialist, Institute of
Museum and Library Services.
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE
ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts
30-Day Notice for the ‘‘Our Town
Program Implementation Study’’
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
National Endowment for the
Arts, National Foundation on the Arts
and the Humanities.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The National Endowment for
the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to
provide the general public and Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing collections of information in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This program
helps to ensure that requested data can
be provided in the desired format,
reporting burden (time and financial
resources) is minimized, collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
the impact of collection requirements on
respondents can be properly assessed.
Currently, the NEA is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
information collection for the
Evaluation of the Our Town Program. A
copy of the current information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the office listed below in the
address section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
address section below within 30 days
from the date of this publication in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Sunil
Iyengar, National Endowment for the
Arts, 400 7th Street SW, Washington,
DC 20506–0001, telephone (202) 682–
5424 (this is not a toll-free number), fax
(202) 682–5677, or send via email to
research@arts.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attn: Sharon Mar, OMB Desk
Officer for the National Endowment for
the Arts, Office of Management and
SUMMARY:
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Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503, 202–395–7316.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NEA
is particularly interested in comments
which:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Agency: National Endowment for the
Arts.
Title: Our Town Program
Implementation Study.
OMB Number: New.
Frequency: One Time.
Affected Public: Grantee
Organizations (local government
agencies and nonprofits).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
381.
Total burden hours: 190.5 hours.
Total annualized capital/startup
costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/
maintaining systems or purchasing
services): $55,000.
This study is a new information
collection request, and the data to be
collected are not available elsewhere
unless obtained through this
information collection. A web-based
survey of the National Endowment for
the Arts’ (NEA) Our Town program
grantees is planned for late January 2019
through mid-April 2019. Knowledge
gained through this study will enable
the NEA to validate or modify the Our
Town program theory of change, logic
model, and measurement model in
order to adjust grant program guidelines
and grantee reporting requirements and
to prepare for a future outcome
evaluation study. The web-based survey
of past and present Our Town grantees
will provide the NEA with a richer
understanding of how Our Town
grantees operate in local communities
and the types of change to which the
grants contribute. Currently, the NEA
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grantee report form does not collect
detailed information about project
design, and changes to the report form
would not yield substantive information
until at least 2022 due to the grant
reporting cycle. Our Town is the NEA’s
creative placemaking grants program
since FY 2011. Through project-based
funding ranging from $25,000 to
$150,000, the agency makes awards
nationally to local government agencies
and nonprofit organizations in urban,
rural, and tribal communities to support
projects that integrate arts, culture, and
design activities into efforts that
strengthen communities by advancing
local economic, physical, and/or social
outcomes. These projects require a
partnership between a local government
entity and nonprofit organization, one of
which must be a cultural organization;
and should engage in partnership with
other sectors (such as agriculture and
food, economic development, education
and youth, environment and energy,
health, housing, public safety,
transportation, and workforce
development). Our Town projects
proposed by applicants often utilize a
mix of activities, including arts
engagement, cultural planning, design,
and artist and creative industry support.
It is the agency’s vision that successful
Our Town projects ultimately lay the
groundwork for systemic changes that
sustain the integration of arts, culture,
and design into strategies for
strengthening communities. This study
supports NEA’s FY 2018–2022 Strategic
Plan, which seeks in part to ‘‘provide
opportunities for the arts to be
integrated into the fabric of community
life’’ (Strategic Objective 2.3) and to
‘‘expand and promote evidence of the
value and impact of the arts for the
benefit of the American people’’
(Strategic Objective 3.2).
Dated: October 15, 2018.
Gregory Gendron,
Director, Administrative Services, National
Endowment for the Arts.
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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
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Privacy Act of 1974; System of
Records
Occupational Safety and Health
Review Commission.
ACTION: Notice of a modified system of
records and rescindment of a system of
records notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the
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Occupational Safety and Health Review
Commission (OSHRC) is revising the
notice for system-of-records OSHRC–7
and is rescinding the notice for systemof-records OSHRC–8.
DATES: Comments must be received by
OSHRC on or before November 19,
2018. The revisions to the system-ofrecords notice for OSHRC–7, and the
rescindment of the notice for OSHRC–
8, will become effective on that date,
without any further notice in the
Federal Register, unless comments or
government approval procedures
necessitate otherwise.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Email: rbailey@oshrc.gov. Include
‘‘PRIVACY ACT SYSTEM OF
RECORDS’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• Fax: (202) 606–5417.
• Mail: One Lafayette Centre, 1120
20th Street NW, Ninth Floor,
Washington, DC 20036–3457.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as
mailing address.
Instructions: All submissions must
include your name, return address, and
email address, if applicable. Please
clearly label submissions as ‘‘PRIVACY
ACT SYSTEM OF RECORDS.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron
Bailey, Attorney-Advisor, Office of the
General Counsel, via telephone at (202)
606–5410, or via email at rbailey@
oshrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4),
requires federal agencies such as
OSHRC to publish in the Federal
Register notice of any new or modified
system of records. As detailed below,
OSHRC is revising the notice for
Personnel Security Files, OSHRC–7, to
(1) account for changes in the names of
the pertinent office and positions within
the agency; (2) eliminate OSHRC’s
regional offices as system locations and
managers; (3) revise the method by
which records are retrieved; (4) update
the authorities permitting maintenance
of this system of records and the
reference to the applicable General
Records Schedule; (5) simplify the
explanations concerning the categories
of individuals covered by the system,
and the categories of records in the
system; and (6) accurately describe
storage and safeguarding practices. To
this system, OSHRC is also adding
records relating to the issuance of office
access cards, which are retrievable by
name, and include the first and last
names of those issued cards, and the
dates that the cards were activated,
deactivated, and turned in. In addition,
OSHRC has previously relied on blanket
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts
30-Day Notice for the ``Our Town Program Implementation Study''
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
AGENCY: National Endowment for the Arts, National Foundation on the
Arts and the Humanities.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and
Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data
can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents
can be properly assessed. Currently, the NEA is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed information collection for the Evaluation of
the Our Town Program. A copy of the current information collection
request can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the
address section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
address section below within 30 days from the date of this publication
in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Sunil Iyengar, National Endowment for the
Arts, 400 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20506-0001, telephone (202)
682-5424 (this is not a toll-free number), fax (202) 682-5677, or send
via email to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: Sharon Mar, OMB Desk Officer for the National
Endowment for the Arts, Office of Management and
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Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, 202-395-7316.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NEA is particularly interested in
comments which:
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information including the validity
of the methodology and assumptions used;
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
Agency: National Endowment for the Arts.
Title: Our Town Program Implementation Study.
OMB Number: New.
Frequency: One Time.
Affected Public: Grantee Organizations (local government agencies
and nonprofits).
Estimated Number of Respondents: 381.
Total burden hours: 190.5 hours.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): $55,000.
This study is a new information collection request, and the data to
be collected are not available elsewhere unless obtained through this
information collection. A web-based survey of the National Endowment
for the Arts' (NEA) Our Town program grantees is planned for late
January 2019 through mid-April 2019. Knowledge gained through this
study will enable the NEA to validate or modify the Our Town program
theory of change, logic model, and measurement model in order to adjust
grant program guidelines and grantee reporting requirements and to
prepare for a future outcome evaluation study. The web-based survey of
past and present Our Town grantees will provide the NEA with a richer
understanding of how Our Town grantees operate in local communities and
the types of change to which the grants contribute. Currently, the NEA
grantee report form does not collect detailed information about project
design, and changes to the report form would not yield substantive
information until at least 2022 due to the grant reporting cycle. Our
Town is the NEA's creative placemaking grants program since FY 2011.
Through project-based funding ranging from $25,000 to $150,000, the
agency makes awards nationally to local government agencies and
nonprofit organizations in urban, rural, and tribal communities to
support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities
into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic,
physical, and/or social outcomes. These projects require a partnership
between a local government entity and nonprofit organization, one of
which must be a cultural organization; and should engage in partnership
with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development,
education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public
safety, transportation, and workforce development). Our Town projects
proposed by applicants often utilize a mix of activities, including
arts engagement, cultural planning, design, and artist and creative
industry support. It is the agency's vision that successful Our Town
projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that
sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies
for strengthening communities. This study supports NEA's FY 2018-2022
Strategic Plan, which seeks in part to ``provide opportunities for the
arts to be integrated into the fabric of community life'' (Strategic
Objective 2.3) and to ``expand and promote evidence of the value and
impact of the arts for the benefit of the American people'' (Strategic
Objective 3.2).
Dated: October 15, 2018.
Gregory Gendron,
Director, Administrative Services, National Endowment for the Arts.
[FR Doc. 2018-22729 Filed 10-17-18; 8:45 am]
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